Consumer Comfort Slides Over Economic Worries
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Yes, it’s terrible. The index is at a three month low. Remember those bad ole days three months ago. I was eating out of a can and living in a box back then.
I found the dog food taste better when you put mustard on it. How about you?
While the declining unemployment rate during the Obama presidency tells a positive story about Americans getting back to work, it’s also received a major assist from the large number of Americans who have dropped out of the workforce altogether. The plummeting labor participation rate is attributable—in part—to the retirement of baby boomers and to out-of-work Americans who are discouraged enough to give up the job hunt. there are 60, 70, 80 million people out there that want to work that aren’t getting jobs- alluding to Americans who are of working age but aren’t in the labor force.
So far so good for me (now it could all go to shit tomorrow…) but I’ve increased my personal spending and with the lower price of gas have a even more money in my pocket.
Am planning on some fairly expensive home improvement projects in the near future, getting a classic Ford Mustang up to 100% showroom quality and just upgraded my internet and satellite TV systems to go along with my new flat screen TV I bought during an after Christmas sale. Within the last few weeks have bought a new grill and a new push lawnmower from Lowe’s. Will be buying a new window air conditioner for the laundry room this weekend if I can catch one on sale
I’m fiscally conservative (been that way all my life) but when I see clear to spend some money, I’ll do so as long as I can afford it.
Right now I feel confident to let go of some cash on things that might be considered non-essential so right now I feel OK with buying some stuff.
You can take that for what it’s worth FITS………
Dang!!!!! You go Sparkle.
I’d add – the chart shows it’s still above 2014 and 2015 – whole thing’s in the shitter I guess.
I just love my new grill (just ask Mrs. Sparklecity and watch her roll her eyes…….)
Oh,Oh,Oh,Oh,,,,,,if forgot to mention……..I bought a grill cover this week!!
****You can’t hide money!!!****
I’ll be over at 7 – I’ll bring the rib eyes.
You’re a prince.
I’ve got a $10 bottle of Merlot from “Be-Lo”,plenty of George Dickel ,”taters” for micro-waving and even an unopened pack of Hav-A-Tampa Jewels that we can smoke on the deck listening to light jazz or blues (or take your pick since you’re the guest…) on DirecTV’s “Sonic-Tap” piped in from the den while we’re grilling …..
It don’t get no better than that…….God Bless America!!!
This just in…..numbers changed slightly.
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The overall trend is a slight incline, the sky is falling!
weak dollar… bad
strong dollar.. bad
speculation… high oil prices…. bad
oversupply … low oil prices… bad
stock market 18,000 …
Will just plays the “Everything is Awesome” song in reverse for inspiration.
The screams of the damned are piped in to heaven as muzak.
Median income over the last 10 years is still down though. The stock market doesn’t always translate to wealth increases for everyone as a whole.
That being said, I think there’s a mini-boom going on- it’s just a mixed bag.
The global economy is weakening, due to a perfect storm of a cratering economy in China, a crash of oil prices, slower growth in the Third World and a realization by central banks that they can’t fix what’s broken. There is a lot of whistling past the graveyard that the U.S. can somehow continue our (rather tepid) recovery, but in a global economy, no country is an island.
Fears of a recession push the stock market downward; then the wipeout of stock values helps bring that recession nearer.
Consumers benefit for now from the cheaper gas prices at the pump. But with wage growth minimal, and real careers giving way to a succession of on-demand “gig” jobs, that’s small comfort.
The South Carolina Policy Council “The Nerve” has posted a totally irrelevant opinion on the Wilson / Pascoe issue that totally avoids the Wilson /Pascoe issue. You can use Disqus.
http://www.thenerve.org/why-there-are-two-prosecutors-in-the-first-place/